January 2009
87 posts
All in a day's work →
Text message #1: Thisisyourmom.Iamtextingyou. Text message #2: I.Dont.Know.How.To.Space.The.Letters.How? Text message #3: Diditwork? Text message #4: Howaboutnow?Isitworking? Text message #5: Ididthat. Text message #6: Ok.I.Am.Calling.Jed.He.Has.The.Same.Phone. Text message #8: As you can see now I know how to do! Text message #9: Listen to my new message! I wont answer. Call now. New voicemail...
Rape Prevention Tactics →
“Be sure to wear lots of underwear, so if you get rape it’ll take them longer and you can escape.”
aofjdfg. Found via Spaceships
Today I saw a derelict man wearing an oversized wedding dress and a wig tramp along Druitt Street, trailed by his equally derelict friends and an enormous blow-up doll he gripped in his hand. Then they went to the pub. All afternoon the plastic helpmate hung out from the third-storey window, titillating the passers-by. I wish I’d taken a picture of this scene, but memory will have to do.
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memo from Cory Doctorow
spaceships:
Practical suggestions for writing in an age of distraction:
Short, regular work schedule
When I’m working on a story or novel, I set a modest daily goal — usually a page or two — and then I meet it every day, doing nothing else while I’m working on it… There’s always 20 minutes to be found in a day… The secret is to do it every day, weekends included, to keep the momentum...
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sugar lumps →
redballoon:
makin’ me happy
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Sometimes the only cure for discontent is to take a daytrip and explore the untidy side of town. Strengthen your ties with local business owners! They’ll offer you zatar pizza for $1.50 and tell you which brands of dolmades to buy. Cheap meals afford an acceptable amount of smug satisfaction, especially when it’s as large and round as a bicycle wheel. I should know, I measured it...
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The following words are all from languages which...
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Unrihtwillnung: improper love (Old English) Istamaasdu: Listen, you in the plural! (Hittite, Turkey) Ebauthoo: water (Beothuk, Newfoundland) Kälymentwam: path to heaven (Tocharian, central Asia) Moíthgnatha: famously smooth (Old Irish) Tehonannonronkwanniontak: they greeted him with respect; literally, they greased his scalp many times (Huron, Ontario) Molatuendalaas: God’s curse in...
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“People can obviously do whatever they want with their blog. But just to FILL UP...”
– the pandas are moshing: Marco responds to my minirant
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“As a writer you must distrust language.”
– Robert Morgan (via aaaaajane) (via unicornology)
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive... →
buyhercandy:
Apparently, I’ve only read 23 (and a half) of the books on this list. I’m horrified.
I managed 38; there’s an enormous pile of mentioned books that are lying around my room half-read, stacked up next to my to-read pile. That doesn’t excuse the fact that of the number of books from this list that I’ve completely read I only managed double digits, oh poo
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Can't Sydneysiders be more sophisticated with... →
semisetadrift:
hatman003:
(via niki)
One day we’ll suprise ourselves when we this isn’t assumed to happen on Australia Day. Until then the shirtless drunk 16 to 30 something minority can run rampant like they represent the majority.
This is why Australia can’t have nice things. “Fuck off, you tool”.
D:
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via reckon) (via spaceships)
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In between making ‘your mum’/’your mum’s face’ jokes and smearing chocolate all over people to make tribal markings and wearing lens-free glasses while watching Dr Strangelove, I decided this year’s goal is to write a really shitty book of wank so that next year’s one will be exponentially better. This is what Australia Day should be about! That and...
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ninefruits:
Random Dude: Happy Australia Day!
Me: Don’t touch me.
“The true reason [we read books] remains the inscrutable one - we get pleasure...”
– Virginia Woolf on her love of reading | Books | The Guardian (via buyhercandy)
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unsustainable:
E-603 - “Forever Gold”
How am I...
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Nightlife in Sydney, however, means: melting streets, beery shoes, girls wearing flags and flaking temporary tattoos and not much else, Estelle remixes, mojitos and popped collars (still). Welcome to Australia Day long weekend, where bogans roam the streets with twelve-packs hoisted on their shoulders, and green-and-gold clothing is mandatory attire.
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“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via thericker) (via barelysarcasm) (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via theyoungmachine)
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a sadist. Now matter...
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branduponthebrain:
Beirut - “My Wife, Lost In the...
“I speak with her almost every day and manage to communicate nothing of...”
– One Sentence (via hearttosoul) (via kyerabianca) (via crazybeautiful) (via marjchun) (via pieces) (via breathsoftruth) (via tuesdayslove)
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“Writing is exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
– E.L. Doctorow (via snowblind) (via singlescoop) (via breathsoftruth) (via tuesdayslove) (via unicornology)
I would have liked to make some astute comments on orthodontics and social norms, and how training your teeth into proper alignment is an analogy for the self-imposed restrictions most of us adopt once we pass through the dizzy throes of puberty, except right now my back molar is an explosion of pain and fuck you Dr Chan, you never said shifting teeth would hurt five years after the fact....
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it’s really disorienting when you spend most of the night inhaling caffeinated beverages in order to watch a black guy in a black suit talk about changing the world and then you pass out and wake up and suddenly there’s a black guy in an orange suit singing about parties in tummies and then you think, oh, yo gabba gabba’s playing, sweet and pass out again.
heute-und:
I can stay up for another 3 and a half hours, right?
Tea: check
Bright lights: check
Loud music: check
Three alarm clocks: once I find the spare batteries, check
9am start to my internship, forget you
antiguit:
When I’ve politely turned down proposals for romantic relationships from well-meaning young men in the past, they were also very likely to halt the subscription to the friendship that they had spent the past few months carefully cultivating with me. This is frustrating and asinine at minimum, and incredibly unsettling and upsetting at most. This is why my mother yelled “STOP TURNING...
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yeah yeah yeahs - maps (acoustic)
for baotran
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Feminist Fred →
singlescoop:
jgh:
Blog about feminism for men, written by a group of men. I like this, since it seems dudez need a space to work out a gender discourse.
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“Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and...”
– — Elizabeth Zimmerman, Knitting Through the Downturn - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com (via bitsbobbins) (via unicornology)
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama will... →
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